I'd really like to hear anything you can say about if IE will get better in the future. IE 7 should fully support the CSS1 and 2 specs plus whatever Microsoft wants to throw in, and handle PNGs correctly. Right now it is sad the IE Mac is better at both of those things. Tabbed browsing and popup blocking is slightly less important but still up there. I'm using Firebird as my browser because I got tired of the same old inadequacies.
Longhorn has an IE written in a .NET language, which means: a complete rewrite. (this is available through Paull Thurrots website). I hope they finally will get rid of the current codebase because of the design flaws and implementation issues that pop up every week.
Maybe, but the security holes will live on.
Remember Scott Hanselman's blog post on .NET purity?. Robert had that linked not two weeks ago. If I understood it correctly, a hypothetical IE7 using the .NET Framework *could* use old libraries from IE6. So that wouldn't mean a complete rewrite.
Why throw away all of that work (and bug fixing)? Starting over would only present the opportunity to introduce new security holes. Joel Spolsky wrote an article in 2000 about programmers' tendency to rewrite and why we shouldn't.
In my view future versions of Internet Explorer should:
* Support recent specs well eg. Xhtml, CSS2/CSS3
* Provide a simpler extensibility model. Writing explorer bands is not a simple task.
* Allow the rendering engine to be reused and *extended* by others.
The rendering engine should be a native .NET component if that's feasibible.
Howdy Bob, those "Is X dead?" questions never go away, because you can't pre-announce a version (and then features, and then shipdate, and then price, and then...). Even when a new version does ship you're primed for a re-run on the new rev. Those types of posts are a given out here.... 
If you can, try to get something published on the site or an interview about a future version, rather than relaying verbal or email comments yourself, because there will be pressure on you to elaborate on anything you translate into your own words. (iow, such a comment is never a one-time thing... it keeps on growing on its own.) Pushing to get needed info into the public record beats being a secret source.
... or not. I've been wrong before so it's presumptuous for me to advise how to handle your own work. But I've been in the same place, trying to handle "Is X dead?" posts on the front lines... they're hard to squelch outright, but getting the info into the public record has seemed strongest from what I've seen, YMMV.
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support
John, good advice.
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